make is a wonderful command line tool to perform repetitive actions which can be dependent on other actions to carry out a procedure such as compiling software or publishing a website.

make takes it's instructions from a file named (typically) Makefile

Here's an example Makefile which is also used to publish this website. I type make all and the magic just happens. So simple!

.PHONY: all build preview push

all: build push

build:
	kiln generate --input ../conshell.net --output ./public

preview:
	kiln serve ./public

push:
	rsync -av --delete ./public/ rango:~/conshell.net/

See the make(1) man page for more details.